Infighting in the UAW: The 1946 Election and the Ascendancy of Walter Reuther

by Bill Goode

Usually the defeat of one union official by another would not occasion great interest by historians. The highly charged atmosphere after World War II and at the beginning of the cold war however led to a strongly disputed election which left Walter Reuther the new president of the UAW. The opinions as to why Reuther unseated the incumbents are many and varied. Dr. Goode goes into these in depth in his interesting and well documented work dealing with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313289042
• ISBN13: 9780313289040
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"